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  1. Re:ApplePay uses industry standard tech on Fraud Rampant In Apple Pay · · Score: 1

    Right because my Nokia 6610 always flawlessly handled VISA/MC transactions. Just look at the folk who jumped onto the NFC bandwagon as soon as Apple said they were there and then imagine if the triad managed to agree on an interoperable payment system instead of VISA/MC. PayPal is a simple example of paying for stuff without VISA/MC and there are plenty of other options out there.

  2. Re:Aren't these already compromised cards? on Fraud Rampant In Apple Pay · · Score: 1

    Isn't that the XBox + Kinect? An on button and then you can use the Kinect to control it?

  3. Re:Why is this a surprise? on Knock-Off Apple Watches Hit the Chinese Market Less Than 24 Hours After Launch · · Score: 1

    Luckily we've at least moved on from DOS:

    Hand on fire.
    Abort, Retry, Fail?

  4. Re:Why is this a surprise? on Knock-Off Apple Watches Hit the Chinese Market Less Than 24 Hours After Launch · · Score: 1

    Be careful what you wish for:
    http://www.stippy.com/japan-wa...

  5. Re:Management speak, blah blah on GitLab Acquires Gitorious · · Score: 2

    GitHub Enterprise edition works on premises.

  6. Re: Makes sense. on Google Throws Microsoft Under Bus, Then Won't Patch Android Flaw · · Score: 1

    Yes Google is to blame because Google hardware falls just as often as everything else.

  7. Re:plus don't crash on bad hardware. Hotplugged CP on Closure On the Linux Lockup Bug · · Score: 2

    Yes it's great to support hotplugged CPUs! 1969 called and they want to let you know they supported online reconfiguration back then too: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...

  8. Re:WHY GOD WHY on Microsoft Is Building a New Browser As Part of Its Windows 10 Push · · Score: 0

    With over 1.2 billion installations, Windows is by far the most used OS in the world

    Citation Needed.

  9. Re:But, but, but... on Is Apple Turning Into the Next "Evil Empire"? · · Score: 2

    They're all evil in an axis of evil like North Korea, Iraq and Iran. They're even in the same geographic region of evilness.

  10. Re:Status bar? on Firefox 4 Beta 12 Released; Fixes Over 650 Bugs · · Score: 1

    They readded the status bar as the "add-on bar" in b11 or b10.

  11. Re:What is the point of OSX server? on Mac OS X 10.7 'Lion' Developer Preview Available · · Score: 1

    Plug time machine disk 1 in, make backup, unplug disk 1, take off site, plug in disk 2, make backup, rinse repeat with however many redundant copies you want. You could additionally set up a tape drive however its probably cheaper and easier for a small office to buy a few large external portable hard drives and rotate them instead of a tape drive and multiple tapes.

  12. Re:What is the point of OSX server? on Mac OS X 10.7 'Lion' Developer Preview Available · · Score: 1

    Or even time machine will do incremental remote backups out of the box.

  13. Re:Fight! on Google Announces One Pass Payment System · · Score: 2

    Apple steals "KHTML" from KDE and calls it "Safari"
    Apple releases their browser code and calls it "WebKit"
    Google takes "WebKit" and calls it "Chrome"

    Wait what?

  14. Re:Not surprising on Sharks Seen Swimming Down Australian Streets · · Score: 1

    Bloody kiwis are everywhere! You don't need to type how you speak!

  15. Re:How about weeding out enterprise standards? on Deferred IT Maintenance Is a Ticking Time Bomb · · Score: 1

    You think that's bad. A former organisation I worked at had a similar thing happen where the Finance group bought a software package which was sold on "no IT department required" however the way we found out was even before they deployed it. It was of course a computer program so instead of the Finance department using their own budget allocation, the bought it out of the IT departments budget. When the CIO and the CFO had a meeting the shouting could be heard from the other end of the building.

    Suffice to say the "no IT department required" bit was trash and at one stage we had a few people working on trying to deploy the system out.

  16. Re:Italy won't get any more of my money. on YouTube Legally Considered a TV Station In Italy · · Score: 1

    Who votes for the prime minister?

  17. Re:Pretty much completely infeasible. on YouTube Legally Considered a TV Station In Italy · · Score: 1

    "taking the th mayorship"? He's the mayor of Thailand now?

  18. Re:good on Stargate Universe Cancelled · · Score: 1

    Maybe all of those things were sitting in a store room somewhere elsewhere in the complex that was inaccessible due to the attack or too far away to go off, grab and hope the planet didn't explode in the mean time. It felt like they picked up everything near by and just ran through since there was no way back out the other way. Atlantis was planned better and they went there on their own time, weren't rushed and most importantly was more organised.

    You've never forgotten something when you're rushing out the door?

  19. Re:Huh? on Preview of Ubuntu's Unity Interface · · Score: 1

    xserve and xsan stand as examples of Apple in the server room and looking stylish as always. Being more expensive than every other server sort of killed it and they've removed both of those lines (XSan first and now dedicated xserves) in preference for Mac Mini Server and Mac Pro Server hardware which build on their more mainstream client offerings.

  20. Re:Ok, I'm convinced on Silverlight 5 — Back From the Dead? · · Score: 4, Informative

    The problem is that Apple initially released their device saying that you wrote web apps for it and that would be the way to develop for it. And everyone hated, said it was a stupid idea and practically demanded an API which Apple subsequently delivered with a controlled way of deployment. The first iPhone SDK was for web apps and bashing Apple for delivering what was requested even if now we have it we realise it isn't so much of a good idea really just gets bothersome. More importantly Apple continue to make that gateway open for developers, Android does though to a lesser extent however Microsoft seem to have the view that anything that runs on a Phone 7 device will be Silverlight or else.

  21. Re:Apple getting desperate? on Apple Bans Android Magazine App From App Store · · Score: 1

    You can put unapproved apps on an iOS device with the iOS developer programme membership as well but you have to pay to get the certificate.

  22. Re:Having to remember even more passwords on Facebook Introduces One-Time Passwords · · Score: 2, Informative

    The worst thing about VBV was not actually having it set up properly and then having a merchant require it compared to others that didn't. I had this happen to me when I was overseas trying to get internet and all of a sudden I got slammed by this Verified by VISA thing that wasn't setup and I could get internet to get the details I needed to get it set up (catch 22). Sounds like a good idea until it gets inconsistently applied in practice.

  23. Re:Bullshit on Best Places To Work In IT 2010 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    To be honest that sounds like any 24 hour systems support role to me, pretty standard fare. Not a great job but someone has to do it and for that line it is a fact of life. Given a sufficiently large organisation someone is in a position where they're going to be paged at weird hours and depending on how your on call works (different people for different days, different people per week, etc) four nights in a row doesn't sound that hard.

  24. Re:Bad joke on AT&T Leaks Emails Addresses of 114,000 iPad Users · · Score: 2, Insightful

    To reasonably extend your analogy, they didn't come in through the front door - they came through the tradesman entrance. Services (trades) were expected to come through this interface not the general public. It is like testing the front door, finding yes you can come in but no you can't have that information and then finding that they left the services door unlocked and decided to waltz through there and get the information they were previous denied. Both are "public" entrances in the sense that they aren't strictly private to the organisation or it's employees (anyone might go up to the services entrance and knock) but not all may enter and it could be considered illegal to enter without permission. They may exist on the same shop front (perhaps a smaller door or slightly to the side) to complete your analogy or they might be better hidden.

  25. Re:Dogfood on Google Reportedly Ditching Windows · · Score: 1

    Abacus